Product reviews for Understanding Dissociative Disorders

Although written primarily for Doctors and Health Care Professionals, this is a book which will also be of tremendous help to therapists, in that it is a fascinating account of the number of presenting problems, most of which you have probably come across, which may have their origins in dissociation. 

Originally termed as having "Multiple Personality Disorder', wrongly, as the author remarks, those suffering from Dissociative Disorders have an incredible ability to compartmentalise different aspects of their personality. Some know all about their alter egos, while others can switch from one to another with no knowledge at all of becoming, to all intents and purposes, someone totally different. This could explain why it is possible for someone who was witnessed performing some act or other to categorically deny having done any such thing. They will have switched to another personality so quickly that they truly believe that it wasn't them!

The author freely admits that, during the early days of her work with such patients, she had to feel her way to effective treatments using trial and error as there were very few studies into the disorder and fewer still ways of dealing with it, other than medication. One of the effective ways of working with Dissociative patients was the use of Ego State therapy, which, in many cases, she found to be very beneficial.



You may feel that working with clients suffering from this disorder is not for you but even if that is the case, this book is still a riveting read and a real eye-opener.